This month one of our main ministry focuses is door-to-door ministry, aka evangelism. I’m not sure what you think of when you hear door-to- door ministry, but I started freaking out inside! I started thinking what will I say, what about the language barrier, what if I forget part of who Jesus is? All these crazy fears crept into my mind.
So Day 1 of ministry started. I was so nervous! I had been praying through all my mixed feelings, and God kept reminding me what He has done for me in my life and who He is to me. That’s really all I am sharing with these people we meet. God is the one who has to do all the work in their hearts. The first house, they said they knew Jesus & we ended up just hearing their different struggles & getting to pray over them. Each house we took turns talking to the people about God. The last house we went to, it was my turn. We met Cecilia. She knew who God was, but didn’t have a personal relationship with him. I prayed in that moment for God to remove any fears I had. I asked her if I could share part of my story. I shared how God brought me out of darkness, to a place of brokenness, in order to heal me and make me complete in him. I shared that the same God loves her and wants her to choose Him. She accepted Christ! I had the chance to pray with her and walk her through accepting Christ into her life. Wow! I was blown away that this 10 minute conversation and me just sharing my story had such an impact. My story has power because of how God has changed my life and is now using it to change Cecilia’s life.
A really cool thought I had was that every single person we talked to that day (and every day of ministry) was someone God had prepared for us to talk to. He knew exactly where we were going and who needed to hear about Him on that exact day!
It’s crazy because I feel this type of evangelism just doesn’t work that well in America. The culture here is so different and it works here! I shouldn’t even be surprised by it because God is so much bigger than the box and the boundaries I put him in. God can really use me. It’s one thing to believe it, but to see it happen so fast in front of me is just another testament to how great God is.
